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...which will next appear at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto, was financed, with extraordinary largesse, by Honeywell, the for-real computer manufacturer-and is a hilarious sendup of the whole electronic-brain industry. It comes in three parts -"like Henry IV, or whoever it was," according to its creator-all of them visibly risible. It is shaped like an elephant, in accordance, says Emett, with Livingstone's Law: "Memory may hold the door, but elephants never forget." Among its components are an eeny-meeny-miney-mo unit (random selection) and a card-punch system run by electrified woodpeckers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Gothic-Kinetic Merlin of Wild Goose Cottage | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...other whatsits that may yet make Emettiana an American household word. Mary, his loving wife and canny business brains of 35 years, concurs. Emett will nonetheless retain his wry, sly urge to celebrate and spoof humanity. At the trade fair in Philadelphia last week, an onlooker buttonholed the creator of the Forget-Me-Not computer and demanded: "But what's the end product?" Emett's considered answer: "To bring the smallest smile to the eye of the beholder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Gothic-Kinetic Merlin of Wild Goose Cottage | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

Perhaps Stephanie and her creator think their Franco-Russian parentage excludes them from this category of pathetic dreamers. But Stephanie's remark is more than anything else a joke on the author. It can only inspire the wish that Gray, like so many others, had allowed her dream of writing a novel to remain unrealized...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Love's Labors Lost | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

...Schwartz and Terrill agree that Mao carefully managed the "uninterrupted" revolution after the Cultural Revolution produced a second serious threat to his position. This suggests a principal question left in the wake of Mao's death: If, as Schwartz says, the revolution can be turned off by Mao, its creator, then what will happen to the revolution...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Divining China's Future | 10/1/1976 | See Source »

Green says that knowing and loving the Creator of the Universe changes his perspective on the scheme of things, and that out of that love naturally grows a commitment to serve...

Author: By Janice L. Cox, | Title: Defining 'Born Again' | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

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